Liuzhou Forest City, millions of plants for a new model of Chinese urban development
A million plants and 40,000 trees. Liuzhou Forest City, designed by architect Stefano Boeri, is set to be inaugurated in 2020 in the northern Chinese city.
What are microplastics? Their effects on our health and the environment
Microplastics are choking our oceans and threatening our health. A guide to the key facts on what microplastics are, where they come from and what is being done to eliminate them.
Croatia is a clean sea champion thanks to microorganisms
Croatia tackled the problem of sea pollution caused by excessive tourism between 2009 and 2015. Here’s how and what was accomplished.
Pete Ceglinski. Even a single Seabin can turn the tide on plastic pollution
Seabin, the device that removes floating waste, has sent ripples all over the world thanks to its simplicity and effectiveness. We speak to Pete Ceglinski, Seabin Project’s CEO, who has dedicated his life to cleaning ocean plastic.
Clean oceans, the UN hosts the first conference organised by children
The first Children’s Clean Ocean Summit will take place at the UN’s Vienna headquarters. A platform for young people to speak their minds and draw up a declaration on saving oceans from plastic waste.
12 pioneering mayors commit to create green and healthy cities
On 23 October in Paris the mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan, Seattle, Auckland, and Cape Town committed to a series of ambitious targets to make their cities greener, healthier and more prosperous. By signing the C40 Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets Declaration, the pioneering city leaders pledged to procure only
Air pollution in India, a threat to human lives bigger than terrorism
Terrorism has drawn global attention and most countries have joined the effort to contrast it. But the international community is yet to wage a war against air pollution despite the enormity of the hazard it poses for global health. In India, for example, terrorism has taken 65,900 human lives between 1994 and 2017, which is almost half of deaths caused by air pollution in
Ocean plastic. Billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke donates high-tech vessel to the scientific community
La nave sarà varata nel 2020 e ospiterà le strumentazioni più all’avanguardia per la ricerca di plastica nel mare. Il progetto realizzato con il Wwf.
India, holy rivers Ganga and Yamuna granted same legal rights as a person
Days after New Zealand granted the Whangui River the status of legal personhood, the culmination of a 140 year legal struggle by the Maori people, a court in India has declared the rivers Ganga and its main tributary Yamuna a legal “person” in a fresh effort to save it from pollution. The river Ganga Originating in
2017 is the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, to foster environmental conservation and economic growth.